The instrument's own words
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To all people to whom these presents shall come; Know that we Joseph
Amos and Anne Sprague his wife of Charlestown in the county of
Washington and State of Rhode Island hereinafter called the grantors
said Anne being the [illegible] Know that we for sale and
in consideration of the sum of five dollars to be up in hand before the
execution hereof well and truly paid by Emily M. field of said Charlestown
now hereinafter called the grantee the receipt whereof the said grantors
acknowledge and have hereby fully satisfied contented and paid thanks and
receipt given and have hereby fully to execute concur and dispatch the said
grantors her heirs except that admitted [illegible] to forever by these presents
have given granted bargained sold assigned released acquitted fully conveyed
and confirmed and by these presents do fully freely and absolutely give
grant bargain sell assign release acquit convey and confirm unto the said
grantee her heirs and assigns forever a certain parcel of
land lying in said town containing by estimation three and
one half acres be the same more or less about more or less as follows
beginning at the [illegible] that corner of the [illegible] of the southeast
corner of Marys [illegible] of her land on the highway now mill road so
called thence North east by east road ninety eight rods to a stake and
stone thence Easterly eighty rods and four and one half feet to a
slab and stone the West line of some land of Mary Hopkins lying there the
borderly thirty nine acres three fourths rods to the place of beginning
or premise of these bounds
To have and to hold the said grantor and bargainee forever with
all the privileges appurtenances and conveniences whatever to the same
belonging or in any way appertaining to the said grantee her heirs and
assigns forever free from the and any other poll weight servant and other
burdens since the said grantors as ancestors our heirs executors
and administrators do covenant promise and grant to and with the
said grantee her heirs and assigns that at and before the executing
hereof we are the true sole and lawful owners of the above bargainee
premises and are lawfully seizing and possessed of the same in an
om proper right ego sole perfect and absolute state of inheritance
in full simple and have in us good right full power and lawful
authority to grant bargain sell convey and confirm the said bargainee
premises in manner hereof specified And that the said grantee her
heirs and assigns shall have and may from time to time and at all
times forever thereafter buy free hold of these premises lawfully
precisely and quietly possess and enjoy without any person or persons the
said dawned above bargained premises with the aforementioned free
clear good freely and obviously quieted undisturbed and discharge of
and from all kind all manner of former or other gifts grants bargains
sales leases mortgages wills entails jointures dower assignments executions
and encumbrances of what man or nature some that might in any
measure or degree disturb or make void these present deed.
Further we the said grantors for ourselves our heirs executors
and administrators do covenant and agree The above described
premises to the said grantee her heirs and assigns against the
lawful claims or demands of any person or persons whatever
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forever To appertain, accrue and defend by these presents
In Testimony Whereof we have hereunto set our hands and
seals this first day of April of the year eighteen hundred and eighty two
Signed, sealed and delivered
In the presence of
Charles Cross
Geo. E. Cross
Joseph Ammons L.S.
Fanny Ammons L.S.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington ss
Washington DC
On Charlestown this first day of
April AD 1882 Joseph Ammons personally appeared before me
and acknowledged the foregoing instrument, by him signed, To be
his free and voluntary act and deed and that at the same time Fanny
Ammons wife of said Joseph Ammons being otherwise formally and
a part from her husband and having the above instrument by her signed
known and acknowledged before me acknowledged the same to be her free
act and deed from which she did not wish to retract
George E. Cross
John Clerk
Received for record April 1st 1882 at 12 oclock PM
and recorded by George E. Cross Town Clerk
KNOW all men by these presents That Whereas Albert Burdick of
Charlestown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island is the owner
of a certain mill with privileges situated in the town of North Kingstown and Charlestown
in said County of Washington and is commonly called and known as Burdicksville
said estate consisting of the tracts or parcels of land one being in the town of
North Kingstown aforesaid containing eight acres more or less and described as follows
as follows, to the North by the highway, Easterly by land of privately of Oliver Longworthy
and to the West by the North River, Northerly by land of the heirs of Albert Converse testatorly
and to the South boundary by land of the heirs of Converse and land now formerly or the
heirs of James Ross with a highway running through the same heritages being situated
in the North River just milling licenses and other the buildings thereon standing
the other tract is situated in Charlestown containing about one eighth of
an acre with buildings thereon and is bounded Northerly Easterly and Southerly by
land now a part of the estate of Geo. Kenyon and Westerly by the Pawcatuck River bounded
the lot on the East side of the Pawcatuck River now Penrose bridge from which the
Burdickville mill starts and whereas this said estate comprises also a cotton mill
privilege and dam and water rights and privileges appertaining to said
lands and whereas John F. Fletcher of Westerly in said County of Washin
gton is the owner of a certain other manufacturing privilege and estate
called Dorrville situated just below said Burdickville privilege on said
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